Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Movie in Development

[Uriel]

From AICN:

Anime News Network points out that IF Magazine has learned that producer Erwin Stoff is developing an adaptation of one of America's favorite anime series.... Cowboy Bebop.

“I’m developing COWBOY BEBOP for Fox, but doing it as a live-action film, so I’m working on that at the moment,” Stoff tells iF. “I’m really excited to be working on it, and it’s in the really early stages. We just signed it the other day.”

“I have such an enormous admiration for its creators, that our first and foremost concern is going to be a real degree of faithfulness to the tone of the movie, to the mix of genres, and so on and so forth,” he says. “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A SCANNER DARKLY, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.”

The 26 episode Sunrise tv series and BONES movie followed a hard luck cadre of bounty hunters in the waning days of wild west period of solar system wide colonization: haunted but slick ex-gangster Spike Spiegel, grizzled veteran ex-cop Jet Black, gambler/femme fatale Faye Valentine, incorrigible hacker Ed, and data dog Ein.

Combining artful homages to Western media, inventive direction from Shinichiro Watanabe and eclectic music from Yoko Kanno, Cowboy Bebop won over many fans when it was released on DVD by Bandai Entertainment and aired on Adult Swim.

[YellerDog]

Ah fuck's sake.

[Will]

Ah fuck's sake.

My sentiments exactly.

[Scourge]

See you space cowboy...

[Nirvana]

I'm shocked its taken them this long to try.

[Mzo]

This will potentially rival the DBZ movie.

[Mr-K]

Spoilers: Spike lives

[Mzo]

Who did I ruin CB for? That was like, the happiest day of my life.

[Nirvana]

This will potentially rival the DBZ movie.

Fuck that. This is Evangelion level, baby!

[Mr-K]

Who did I ruin CB for? That was like, the happiest day of my life.

I ruined it for this nerdy ugo anime girl that was in one of my classes in high school. Then I ruined it for a friend of mine when telling him about what I did.

He's still kind of upset about that actually.